Book 8: Chapter 35
The door gently opened as though Luna had returned; but, I opened my eyes to see Alice, who was covered in blood, instead. She had the key in between her fingers and looked at me with a cold look.. In that moment, I realised what she was after.
‘I best not resist now. I don’t know her reasons, but I’m aware that I can’t defeat Alice in this state.’
I weakly reached for the necklace on the bedside cupboard. I felt that I had to call for Vyvyan now.
My sixth sense was telling me I would seriously die this time.
“Your Majesty, if I were you, I wouldn’t touch that.” A dagger flew through the air with a whistling sound and stabbed through the back of my hand, pinning it to the bedhead. The pain radiated throughout my entire body.
“Aaargh!!”
I felt numbed just hearing my own shriek of pain. The pain caused me to curl my body up. I tightly gripped the dagger on my left hand that pinned my hand to the bedhead with my right hand. I was sure I would rip my flesh out if I pulled the dagger out. If I’m going to die from blood loss, I might as well leave it there.
Alice stood before me with an eerie smile. She gently moved the dagger on my hand around and said, “Your Majesty, you won’t need to suffer if you obey me… I was going to say that you wouldn’t suffer any pain if you just obediently obeyed me, but I need to take you away first.”
“I can go with you…” I took in a breath of cold air. I fought off the pain on my left hand and struggled to continue, “I’ll do anything. I won’t resist.”